Vancouver is a very green city. The amount of greenery is incredible considering the buildings are reaching higher and higher, almost touching the clouds. In fact, there are days when the top ten to twenty floors on some high rises are lost in the fog. That must be unsettling, looking out to a curtain of clouds. The shrubs, trees and evergreens are planted throughout the city, cleaning the air with their own breathing, giving us cleaner oxygen. The amount of plants makes one want to have the same natural surroundings inside or at least on the balcony, if luck is on you side with that option. Currently, my little jungle is enjoying the warmth inside during the chill of the winter. Last year I lost faith in a couple of California Lilacs I purchased, frozen over a week and half of deadly -20°C weather. I had to heat the hummingbird feeder with a telephoto lens warmer for a camera. I didn't want to lose my new lilacs so I brought them inside, along with my Japanese dwarf maple, my cal...
Like a cozy sweater, I wrapped myself in the past, took a deep breath and pushed play. I knew what was coming, and I was already familiar with the first episode of its release, but knowing I had full access to every episode made the experience more personal. There was no familiar theme song as it wasn't a reboot, but it had the feeling of something you know like the back of your hand, like that smell that brings you back to your grandmother's home or the taste that transports you to another time in your life. It was almost like the feeling returning to a numb limb, with which I have had recent experience, two carpal tunnel surgeries later. My brain, or rather my soul, was awakened from the fog bathed in for what seemed like forever. I decided to use my time back in New York with ladies from my past. Although fictional, they definitely were part of my life, playing out storylines side by side with my life on the tube weekly. Having them back, 20 years later, aged and lived i...